S. Lamble and Mrs. Cutter in 1872 and they toured Australia and visited New Zealand. She and Beaumont were also the main singers in a series of concerts at the Royal Exhibition Building and she was a soloist on the Scots' Church choir from 1880–1910. Although her income was small, she was able to continue singing because her husband's was slightly larger. Later career and death Palmer later became a successful singing teacher and was praised by celebrities she sang with, such as Charles Santley. Although she visited the United States, she had to return to Melbourne as her mother had fallen ill. To her disappointment, Palmer also had to give up teaching some years before her death. Her husband died 28 June 1928, before she died herself on 16 June 1932 in South Yarra. Palmer was survived by a son and two daughters, one of which was Brisbane soprano Mrs. Gilbert Wilson. In her entry for Palmer in the Australian Dictionary of Biography, musicologist Thérèse Radic said that although Palmer was undoubtedly gifted, the demands of her place in society as a married woman barred her from further development like many of her contemporaries and, unlike her mother, Palmer could not "successfully break through the barricades of convention". Caradini's niece was the writer Mary Gaunt. References Further reading 1844 births 1932 deaths Australian people of English descent Australian operatic sopranos Carandini family People from Hobart 19th-century Australian women opera singers